Thiruvananthapuram: The State will receive RS 347.55 Crore from the middle under the newly formed state disaster mitigation fund (SDMF) which will be used exclusively for preparation work to ensure natural disaster mitigation.
The Interior Ministry has allocated funds, where RS 115.85 Crore will be contributed by the state as part of its part, taking a total to Rs 463.40 Crore to be used for the next five years, based on recommendations on the 15th of the Financial Commission.
The state is expected to benefit from new funds because most of the districts have complained about lack of funds for pre-monsoon activities such as desilting, ensuring smooth flow of storm water to avoid flooding opportunities, etc.
All projects related to measuring mitigation for disasters notified by the center, namely cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, fires, floods, tsunamis, hail, landslides, avalanches, cloud explosions, pest attacks and frost and cold waves and disasters which was notified by the state government funded from SDMF.
However, the state government has been asked to use only 10% of the annual allocation of SDMF for mitigation projects in connection with the disaster they consider to be a disaster in the local context in the state.
SDMF will be used for local levels and community-based interventions, which reduce the risk and promote environmentally friendly completion and livelihood practices.
However, the center specifically asked countries with large-scale mitigation interventions such as coastal wall construction, flood embankments, support for drought resistance, etc.
Must be pursued through routine development schemes and not from mitigation funds.
Mitigation measures can be structural and non-structural.
Structural mitigation measures include physical construction to reduce or avoid possible hazard impacts, or the application of technical or technical techniques to achieve danger resilience and resilience in the structure or system.
What is not structural includes the use of knowledge, practice, policy, increasing public awareness, training and education, forest management and recovery of mangrove forests, awareness campaigns, etc.
Countries have been instructed at least 10% of the HTMF each year must be intended for non-structural steps.
In terms of flood mitigation projects, which are important factors regarding Kerala, countries have been asked to carry out some non-structural steps that include adopting an integrated flood management approach by considering river basins as a hydrological unit, dosage and demarcation of plain flood zones on stretching rivers Certain ones that are notified in countries and regulations of various activities are permitted.
The 15th Finance Commission recommends Rs 32,031 Crore (20% of the state disaster risk management funds) for SDMF for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26.
Except for North Eastern and Himalayas, the center will contribute 75%, while the remaining 25% will be contributed by the state.